Acanthovalva inconspicuaria (H ü bner, 1819) COMMON NAME(S): Geometer moth. SYNONYM(S): Eubolia pumicaria Lederer, 1855; Selidosema osyraria Guenée, 1857b; Acidalia cinerascens Butler, 1875a; Tephrina perturbata Bastelberger, 1908; Tephrina cinnamomaria Rothschild, 1914. IUCN STATUS: Not Evaluated (NE). DISTRIBUTION: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Greece, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe. LOCALITY IN ZAMBIA: Mumbwa in Central Province; Lusaka in Lusaka Province; and Solwezi in Northwestern Province. LARVAL HOSTPLANT(S): A known host plant for the larvae of this species is Acacia nilotica (L.) Delile (Fabaceae). SOURCES: African Moths 2019; De Prins & De Prins 2022; Hampson 1910c.

Published as part of Mbata, Keith J. & Prins, Jurate De, 2023, Annotated checklist of moths of Zambia (Insecta: Lepidoptera), pp. 1-503 in Zootaxa 5354 (1) on page 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5354.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10130434